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Hmm the Eddie Vedder album is exceptionally good on first listen, and has the most non-existent atmos mix I've ever heard. Worse than an upmix, this is just whispers of reverb in the back.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/earthling/1604449350?lsStill, his obvious love of Fugazi makes me so happy. Vedder has an incredible band and producer on this one.
 
It's no better on the Tidal side... there's three different links available for Fleetwood Mac Rumors in Atmos although they appear to have identical content:
https://listen.tidal.com/album/215115415https://listen.tidal.com/album/215115400https://listen.tidal.com/album/215245841
This is the Tidal link to the Atmos mix:
https://tidal.com/browse/album/215115400
I've sampled this mix, and I am very unimpressed. A completely different approach than the 5.1 mix. This one is front heavy, with minor enveloping effects in the rears and heights. For example, some backing vocals in the heights and rears in The Chain, only during the chorus. I don't know if I will ever listen to it from beginning to end.
 
This is the Tidal link to the Atmos mix:
https://tidal.com/browse/album/215115400
I've sampled this mix, and I am very unimpressed. A completely different approach than the 5.1 mix. This one is front heavy, with minor enveloping effects in the rears and heights. For example, some backing vocals in the heights and rears in The Chain, only during the chorus. I don't know if I will ever listen to it from beginning to end.
I love this mix and will play it quite some times, nice with a different mix than the DVD-A.:cool:
 
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This is the Tidal link to the Atmos mix:
https://tidal.com/browse/album/215115400
I've sampled this mix, and I am very unimpressed. A completely different approach than the 5.1 mix. This one is front heavy, with minor enveloping effects in the rears and heights. For example, some backing vocals in the heights and rears in The Chain, only during the chorus. I don't know if I will ever listen to it from beginning to end.

It didn't do much for me either. I will be sticking with the 5.1 mix until I get curious again about the Atmos mix. I will probably be left disappointed again when that time comes.
 
I'm trying to decide about getting mauled $280 for the Rush Moving Pictures 40th garbage box just to get the BluRay. So I went and listened to the Atmos mixes on Tidal and I gotta agree w/ @edisonbaggins they are sub-optimal at best. Does anyone know if these are the ones for the box set.

The more I rolled through the TIDAL Atmos collection the less impressed I was with it. I know we got his big tale about how they brought in a bunch of actual engineers and remixed the songs But I'm not convinced they mixed from the multis. Way too much of the hissy compressed bleed in all the channels. The kind you get when you EQ out freqs, but the noise they make in your desired freqs stays. Lots of cymbal and guitar remnants.

It just all sounds like there are a couple of cats fighting in an alley behind my house.
If anyone can point to some decent mixes there I'm missing I'll try them.
 
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